Brainstorming titles for Mouse Guard hacks

[Funky Phantom]

Since Luke suggested we start another thread, here we go:

"Mice in the Vineyard"- it already reminds me of Dogs as-is.
"Sherlock Mouse"- Something like The Great Mouse Detective.
"Ars Mousica"- It already has seasons. Just mix in some Magic Burner.
"Lensmouse"- Mice working for the Galactic Partol in Doc Smith's classic "Lensman" setting.
"Vampire: The Mousequerade"- I'm sorry.

[AnyaTheBlue]

Well, Luke already suggested "Call of Mousethulhu" (although he had Moose, I think that was a typo).

All I'm getting are:

The Three Mouseketeers

and

Of Mice and Men

[luke]

Not a typo! Have you seen a Moose in the game? They ARE Cthulhu!

[Paul B]

Team-oriented RPGs for which I'd love to see hacks:

Star Mice, of course -- both Wars and Trek

Gamma Mice -- not explicitly team-based, but more gonzo than Twilight 2000. Probably most mutations could be reflected as traits. Maybe some very weird Natures.

All Mice Must Be Eaten -- survival horror, mice vs. shambling zombie cats if you want to keep it furry.

Ars Mousica -- cabals of sorcerous mice and their lackeys

Feng Cheese -- martial-arts mice battle evil across time (gets very confusing if you're furry-ing FS since you already have The Ascended in the setting)

[Aramis]

Not a typo! Have you seen a Moose in the game? They ARE Cthulhu!

They pretty much serve the great old ones in real life!

I've lost two acquaintances to moose (One, a professor, was trampled to death; the other died in a crash, when the moose rammed his car...). My dad came real close to dying from a moose charging his car. An ex-GF and 3 of her friends all got grievous injuries from a moose charging their car.

Bull moose try to rutt against parked aircraft. They rutt against moving autos. You don't hit the moose, it hits you. Usually at the front quarterpanel...

Moose: the unseelie elk...

[stormsweeper]

They pretty much serve the great old ones in real life!

I've lost two acquaintances to moose (One, a professor, was trampled to death; the other died in a crash, when the moose rammed his car...). My dad came real close to dying from a moose charging his car. An ex-GF and 3 of her friends all got grievous injuries from a moose charging their car.

Bull moose try to rutt against parked aircraft. They rutt against moving autos. You don't hit the moose, it hits you. Usually at the front quarterpanel...

Moose: the unseelie elk...

A M00se once bit my sister ...

[steve]

WasteMouse - A fallout / wasteland inspired post nuclear apocalypse setting.

[AnyaTheBlue]

I haven't gotten to the moose writeups yet! Grrr!


A M00se once bit my sister ...

Damn you! I was going to make that joke!

What about a forensic investigation-type show? CSI: Mouseami?

[Paul B]

WasteMouse - A fallout / wasteland inspired post nuclear apocalypse setting.

Heh...I was thinking Smallout -- survivor rodents avoiding supermutants and ghouls in the wastes of Washington DC.

p.

[MikeD]

What about Penmouse? (Pendragon for MG). Might work, you already have the winter phase built in.

[John Powell]

Mouse Guard: Wooden Ships and Iron Mice
Mouse Guard: 1889
Mouse Guard: Cold Warriors
Mouse Guard: 2020
Mouse Guard: Above and Beyond

[Z-Dog]

"Vampire: The Mousequerade"- I'm sorry.

LOL!

my own:

Mice and Mazes

[Mark Causey]

Fafhrd and the Grey Mouse: Adventures of Little Lankhmar

[Z-Dog]

Mousestar
Don't Rest Your Tail
MouseQuest
EverMouse
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Mouse
M.O.U.S.E.
Mouselike
Mousebusters
Mouse World
A Game of Mice
MouseMaster
MouseMoon
Mouse Wars
Mice Unlimited
Mutants and Mice
Mouse: The Reckoning
Mouse Kingdoms
Mouse 007
kill mice for satan
Mice Ate My Baby!
Macho Mice with Guns
MouseWarrior
Mouse: The Ascension
Mice, Spies and Private Eyes
Mouse 2000
Mousaverse
Mouse: The Resurrection
My Life with Mouseter (sorry)
Mouse Realms
The Mouseside Project
Mice Burger
Mousanoia
Mouseland
The Riddle of Mouse
Mousetech
RuneMouse
Savage Mice (yeah, I wanna play that one!)
Mousecraft
Teenage Mutant Ninja Mice (too easy)
Time Mice
Transmice Space
Tunnels and Mice
Unknown Mice
Weapons of the Mice
Mousecraft
The Wheel of Mouse
Mouse Hunter: The Invisible World
Mouse of Wonder
Mouse Tree
Mouse: The Oblivion
Moushu

[AnyaTheBlue]

Fafhrd and the Grey Mouse: Adventures of Little Lankhmar

Okay, this is tangential, but that just put me in mind of a little "addition to canon" that the Chaykin/Mignola Fafhrd & Grey Mouser series added -- in one of the stories, the narrator explains the two were on the outs with one another, but nobody knew why. In the books, I seem to recall it being the same. However, in the same panels, there were these word balloons "F-a-f-e-r-d!" "F-a-f-h-r-d!" (or something like that).

That just cracked me up.

[Tulpa]

Mouse Effect

the mousiest space epic

[Aramis]

Starships and Spacemice... Mouse Adventure in the Final Frontier!

[John Anderson]

"MG: Secret (little) Army" from my post on this (http://burningwheel.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6687&page=4) thread.
John

[Aramis]

Get Mouse: Control vs Chaos

Obstacle types:
Technology - Use it
Enemy Agents - Defeat Them
Innocents - Protect them
"Allied Agents" - Stop them from interfering
Information - Get the right stuff and/or give the wrong stuff.
Weather - Somethings never change. Unfortunately, the weather isn't one of them.
Terrain - unpleasant or just out of place in it. From ballrooms to sewers.

Ranks:
Analyst/Agent in training
Agent (Grades 3-2-1)
Deputy Chief (Captain Equivalent)
Chief of Control

Stages of training:
Home town
Schooling
Analyst
Mentor's Op Training
Field Experience.

New Weapons: get wild....

Hack to missions:
Pick 3, and invoke the others as twists and complications. Tech, especially, is twist worthy. But keep each short, and if possible, slapstick but mostly successful on failure.

[Paul B]

In the grim future of MouseHammer 40,000 there is only war.

Hm.

Team-based. Generally mission-based. Big overarching conflict. Chaos Weasels howling in the Void, spreading death in all directions.

(First expansion: CheeseStealers).

p.

[luke]

Oh, I like that. Mouse War! Hundreds of thousands of mice sent against the Bear Titan!

[Z-Dog]

Mice + power armor = awesome

[Trithemius]

(First expansion: CheeseStealers).

p.

CloakStealers? They pretend to be like us, but they are not!

Personally I'd want to be a MouseTrader in this setting.

[Trithemius]

Ducklance, a fantasy epic revolving around the quest to reforge the fabled ducklances in order to stem the tide of the evil duckarmies that are conquering the Territories.

[AnyaTheBlue]

Ducklance, a fantasy epic revolving around the quest to reforge the fabled ducklances in order to stem the tide of the evil duckarmies that are conquering the Territories.

Isn't this an old RuneQuest adventure?

(rimshot)

[Trithemius]

Isn't this an old RuneQuest adventure?

(rimshot)

DuckPond! Also, we should stop talkin' in case Stew (http://duxploitation.blogspot.com/) hears us...

[johnstone]

Ducklance, a fantasy epic revolving around the quest to reforge the fabled ducklances in order to stem the tide of the evil duckarmies that are conquering the Territories.

Which of course leads to Mouse Joust!

[Irminsul]

As to "Star Mice"... anyone notice the possible tribute on page 269 of MG?
Is that Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Luke I see?


First post. Hello!

[Aramis]

As to "Star Mice"... anyone notice the possible tribute on page 269 of MG?
Is that Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Luke I see?


First post. Hello!

Neat catch... sure looks like it Han, a Pseudo-Chewie, And Luke...

[Pheel]

Fafhrd and the Grey Mouse: Adventures of Little Lankhmar

It would be cool to create the full length F&GM novel -- Swords of Lankhmar -- wherein the heroes deal with an attempt by Lankhmar Below (the rats) to take over the city -- from the rodents' point of view...

[Aramis]

Mouseylon 5... 2million-500thousand pounds of steel, all alone in the dark... A home away form home for half a million mice, voles, shrews and other aliens...

[pfischer]

No Country for Old Mice.

Call it. Just call it.

[christoffer]

Mazes & Mice. Or Mice & Mazes.

[jystdave]

Batmouse: Lockhaven Knights
Robin Hood and his merry mice
Mousatio Hornblower: High adventure on the high seas!
Mouserado: Wild west adventures
G.I. Mouse: A real Lockhaven hero
Unmouseables: Eliot Mouse vs Capone
Mouse files: The truth is in the territories
Robomouse: The future in law enforcement
Buffymouse the weasel slayer
Transmousers: more than meets the eye
The Scarlet Pimpermouse
The Mouseden files: full auto mage
Mouseybaba and his forty thieves: Arabian Knights
The Incredamice

Quite a few of these I wouldn't mind hacking.

Jyst

[beer is the mind killer]

Man, a lot of these are pretty eye-rolling.

I'm finally trying to write up Battlestar Smintheus on Zoho.

(For us cheap bastards who don't have Apple machines to crank out PDF natively, online doc things can do PDF conversion for us. Zoho has a few more options than Google docs right now.)

[AsthmaticHamster]

OpenOffice can print to PDF.

[beer is the mind killer]

Mousepeada: The Invid Invasion might be next up for me.

MouseHammer 40K: Grimdarkfarfutureonlywar (from prior posts) also sounds nice. Love the universe, hate the existing games, for the most part.

[beer is the mind killer]

The more I think about it, MouseHammer 40k is a hard thing to do.

Burning Empires would do Dark Heresy/Inquisition stuff better. Ditto to Imperial Guard/Gaunt's Ghosts.

Maybe Spess Mahhreeeins would be good, but then you run into the Deathwatch problem: spess mAhrreeens only thing to do is to fight.

Rogue Trader & crew, maybe? Burning Empires might not be the best for that.

Craftworld Eldar? Iyanden, I am thinking (the one with all the Wraithlords & Wraithguard).

Why Iyanden? Because the obvious antagonist for any Warhammer 40k hack is the Great Devourer - the Tyranids. Anything else is a bigger bitch to stat up, IMO.

Maybe Tau Empire, though. I love the Tau, aside from the space commie thing. O'Shovah enclave Tau! Better dead than red!

[ThisIsVictor]

Moustry Science Theater 3000.

[beer is the mind killer]

Stealing totally from Burning X stuff...

Under a Mouse Sky :D

The Mice Must Flow

I also wonder if Burning Empires might be Mouse-ified somehow as a "Red Box" kind of approach to the whole Worm conflict. BE is so pretty, but I'm still figuring it out.

[beer is the mind killer]

Gang Guard (channeling old TSR titles)... but we'll explicitly use the Chicago of Al Capone & Eliot Ness.

Les Grandes Sourix (yea, horrible French)... Formula 1 racing! Replace Fighter with Racer.

[Fuseboy]

Did we get Gamma Mouse yet? Very nearly the same game as Mouse Guard, but with much weirder animals, weather, and locations.

[DavetheLost]

Mousequerade: The game of elegant refined mice in an 18th Century Manor House.

Mouse: The Sqeaking

Mouse Busters

Mousehole Impossible

Miami Mice

The Once and Future Mouse

[beer is the mind killer]

Kitchen Stadium Guard (Iron Chef!)

The Good, the Bad, and the Mousely. Spaghetti Westerns.

Ride with the Mouse. The Border War between Kansas & Missouri.

Crouching Mouse, Hidden Weasel. Relationship-driven wushu!

Mouseback Mountain. Just to continue the Ang Lee thing. ;)

An American Civil War game actually seems more appealing than a straight up Western. The Border War is more do-able because it tended to be less about armies and more about cavalry raiders & irregulars.

I might peek at PIG's Revolutionary War thing as well (for their Coyote Trails game)... So, "The Purfuit of Mousinefs"?

(Wasteland/Fallout is better than Gamma World IMO.)

[beer is the mind killer]

To Boldly Go Where No Mouse Has Gone Before would be easy to do. Far easier than Star Wars. Take a little bit of Omnihedron's Duty & Honour, plus Trek crap, plus MG-style conflict resolution. Easy!

We named the Mouse "Indiana"!. Indiana Jones or Lara Croft kind of fighting-archeologist adventure thing against the Nazis. The cover of the latest Game Informer with the new Lara Croft (http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2010/12/06/lara-croft-tomb-raider-reboot-game-informer/) kind of inspired me. Dirty, dirty girl.

Achtung Mousetang!. WW2 flying aces. OR, maybe tank commanders in Western Europe (mainly Patton & US Shermans). See, this is what my (uparmored) Mouse Guard book looks like (in the bathroom of a suite at the Doubletree, Foggy Bottom, DC). The back cover is protected by a sheet of cardboard:
http://bierundpanzers.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/img00184-20101207-0033.jpg